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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Hero Hostess Alumni Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 2 of the Hero Hostess Alumni Blog Hop featuring fabulous stamps from the new Hero Arts 2016 release and winter catalog. If you've come from the oh-so-talented Lin Brandyberry's blog Sending Hugs, you're in the right place!!

PRIZES*PRIZES*PRIZES!!Hero Arts will be awarding a $25.00 Hero Arts shopping spree to the winner randomly chosen from all of the comments left on the blogs included on today's hop. A second bonus prize of Hero Arts product will go to one lucky winner who comments on today's Hero Arts post. Deadline for comments is Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 11:59 pm Pacific time.See the Hero Arts Blog posts on 10/24 & 10/25/16 for complete prize details.

I was honored to be a Hero Hostess (facilitator on their Flickr Group) back in 2011. Thanks to Hero Arts for including me in their Hostess family and on this fun hop!! I'm delighted to showcase some new goodies from their 2016 winter catalog. I found so many great products I couldn't resist. One such item - Kelly's Winter Planner; I just love the little winter icons in this set. I started with the bitty Christmas tree and Merry Christmas sentiment, adding them to the new Infinity tag dies (they are amazing!). The Infinity Rectangles dies made layering a breeze! And I just had to use a PEACE die cut (my new favorite word die). I must mention how much I love Hero Arts Layering Paper - I have every color but especially adore the Pool used here.

Next up - a card with CG697 Blizzard Bold Prints - my new favorite background! I just love the 6x6 size and it's so perfect stamped on the card base behind the gold embossed ornaments from DC186 Ornaments Stamp & Cut (layered on a piece of bokeh paper). The Let's Be Merry sentiment came from CM100 Christmas Messages - I just love this set for its variety. More layering paper - I used Pine for this card base.

And finally, here's a shaker card using the darling mittens from CL999 Holiday Mittens. The sentiment comes from DC193 Kelly's S'mitten Stamp & Cut. The Rectangle Infinity dies helped immensely when creating my shaker!! The shaker elements are a mix of sequins and chunky glitter I bought at Michael's. The vellum covering the shaker window came from a Hero Arts monthly card kit; it's not available in their store.

Your next stop is the delightful Sally Sherfield's blog Created by Sally. And here's the list of all the stops on today's hop for maximum inspiration:

You can find yesterday's Day 1 here. Remember to leave comments on the Hop posts by 11:59pm Pacific Time on October 30th 2016 for the chance to win Hero Arts prizes!!

Thanks for stopping and thanks for the kind comments! Thanks to Hero Arts for the goodies they sent and for the great customer service & inspiration they always provide! And special thanks to Virginia Lu who coordinated us this time and to all my hostess sisters for their friendship!!

What a delightful trio of cards, Linda! I love how you used all the tags on the first one (the woodgrain looks great as their background) and your mitten shaker card is too cute, with its wonderful combination of colors and that polka dot paper! So glad to call you sista and hop with you once again!

I love the layout for your tag card and I love purple and aqua together as a color combo, but all the cards are so pretty! The shaker mitten card is so cute! Thanks for the inspiration! kReN@afourthlife

BEAUTIFUL post, Linda! I love the swanky and stylish color combo in your first card!! The embossing looks amazing on the 2nd. And the 3rd one (a shaker card!!!) is warm and lovely! Happy to be hopping along with you. xo

I love what you did with these tags, not just stark white tags that most people think about, makes me want to run to my craft room and color. The ornaments are so elegant. Then you pop such a fun shaker card into the mix.

Fabulous cards, Linda! Love the colors on your first one! Your ornaments look gorgeous with the gold embossing and those mittens? Delightful! I've really enjoyed reuniting with you and all the hostesses! So fun! Sending hugs! ♥

Wow Linda, wonderful cards one and all!! Gorgeous layering, colours and sparkle on the first card and the tiny tree is so sweet! Your ornament card is so elegant with the beautiful ornaments embossed in gold and hanging from the pretty swag! The shaker card is so pretty and fun! Gorgeous design and colouring and I'd have fun shaking all that sequin and chunky glitter goodness inside!

Love the layering of the tags in the first card.The mittens are darling. The two differentpapers for the border are fun.The gold embossing on the ornaments iswonderful.So many great ideas.thanks for sharing.

Linda, I love your fun collection of cards! The first one is a rustic beauty, it totally makes me smile! Love that you made a shaker card too, it's wonderful! Such fun to be hopping together again! Hugs!

What a fabulous collection of cards! I love the unusual (but utterly fabulous) colours of your first card, the beautiful embossing of the second, and the fun mittens on your happy shaker card! Thanks for sharing these!

Linda! The use of purple is one of my all time favorites, especially for the holidays!! Really love how you used non-traditional colors in these designs, simply stunning!! Great hopping with you this year!

I am blown away by your embossing on the ornaments card. You are very talented. You are also very versatile-the fun mittens card right after the crisp ornament card really showed a wide range of your skills and creativity.

Your cards are superb! Your mitten shaker card is ADORABLE! A must try! I am intrigued with your ornament card and plan on ordering the ornament stamp set! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win!